Chapter 12 The Odd Couple of Athens

I read in the book that in the city of Athens, there is a main road—Pan Athens Avenue that runs through the whole city, but the overall street system is lack of planning, so it is easy for outsiders to get lost when entering Athens for the first time.This statement is not false at all, because I have been deluded now.This place, which doesn't even have a house number or a street name, is simply an Athens maze... Pedestrians come and go on the street from time to time. The men's clothes are very simple, a kind of knee-length gown between the robe and the shawl, and the women mostly wear cotton short-sleeved long skirts, which are shaped like men's long gowns. , but the neckline is very low, and the neckline is trimmed with fabrics of other colors.In order to make the figure more graceful and moving, women also wear veils made of very soft fabrics.But regardless of men and women, everyone likes to expose their right arm.

Walking towards me was a woman in a blue veil, with the ancient Greek style of a married woman's chido, and a fringe of bangs on her forehead.Looking at her kind face, she seemed to be an easy-going woman, but there was a hint of sadness on her face.I went up to meet her, intending to ask her how to find the Panathenaic Avenue. When she saw me, she seemed to be slightly taken aback, and when she knew that I was inquiring about where to stay, a strange expression crossed her face.Before I finished asking, she suddenly warmly invited me to her home. I didn't quite believe my good luck: "I don't want to bother you, do I?"

She smiled, pointed to the sky and said, "It's getting late, you can stay at my house temporarily tonight, otherwise it won't be very convenient for you as a girl." I hesitated for a while, and decided not to refuse this piece of pie that fell from the sky. "Then excuse me, thank you." I showed her a grateful smile. After following this woman named Lorna around the city for a long time, I came to her residence.During the conversation with her on the road, I learned that both she and her husband were nobles in the city, and the couple had only one daughter. Her husband seemed a little surprised by my arrival. Lorna whispered something in his ear, and a strange expression flashed across his face, but he quickly expressed his welcome to me.I smiled and said hello to him, feeling a bit of doubt in my heart, wondering if I was being too sensitive, the two couples seemed to be a little too enthusiastic towards me.

During the meal, I saw their daughter. This girl named Ruina was about the same age as me, with a beautiful appearance, especially those black eyes, which always made me feel inexplicably familiar. "Xiaowan, you are a guest from a foreign land, so you are welcome here." Lorna smiled and handed me a clay basin. I politely expressed my thanks, and looked into the earthenware pot, there were a few balls of batter inside, which looked really good... Then I looked on the table, and there was a large pot of roasted pork stewed with olive oil.The food of this nobleman is really simple, but I am not surprised, because I have read in the book before that the ancient Greeks did not pay much attention to diet. Their staple food is often based on granular food, often wheat, Barley or rice is soaked wet, rolled into flour, rolled into small balls, and finally cooked, served dry in bowls.

"You're welcome, Xiao Wan." Lorna held up the bowl with her left hand, and then used her right thumb, index finger, middle finger, and ring finger to pinch the dough in her bowl and send it to her mouth. My face twitched.By the way, the Greeks at this time did not have the concept of chopsticks, spoons, and forks, they all used their hands.Looking at their enthusiastic smiles, I also had to reach out, pinch some dough and put it in my mouth, chewed it a few times, the taste was barely passable, but it was a bit hard and hard to swallow.Lorna handed over a bowl of water, I drank it too quickly and choked.

At this moment, their daughter Ruina suddenly clapped her hands and burst out laughing, excitedly imitating my choking appearance. "Rina!" Lorna scolded her softly.She froze suddenly, curled her lips, and burst into tears again. I felt the corners of my eyebrows twitching slightly.Could this girl be a fool? "Xiao Wan, I'm sorry, Reina is like this sometimes." Luo Na's expression was complicated, and there seemed to be something hard to say. I smiled and shook my head: "It's okay, it's okay." Cannibals have soft mouths, but short hands.So, I don't mind.

After dinner, Rona asked a maid to lead me to a side room to rest. "Miss Wan, you will live here tonight." The maid lit the lamp for me, and when she turned her head to look at me, she suddenly showed a surprised expression. I quickly caught her expression, and asked casually, "What's the matter, is there anything strange on my face?" She shook her head hastily, and blurted out: "No, no, I just think your eyes are very similar to our Miss Reina." My heart skipped a beat, that's why!No wonder the girl's eyes seemed familiar, it turned out to be because they were similar to my own eyes.Is it because of this reason that the two of them are so enthusiastic about me?

"But we, Miss Reina, are not as lucky as you." She said quietly. "What happened?" I asked curiously. She looked around and lowered her voice: "Miss Ruina fell a while ago, and she became like that after that." She pointed to her head, "The doctor said it might have fallen here." "So unlucky... Is there no possibility of a cure?" I asked.It turned out that the girl was really a fool. She shook her head: "The master has been very troubled by this, but the more troubled thing is not this." "Oh? What's bothering you?"

She suddenly seemed to realize something, and said hastily: "Oops, I'm talking too much again. Rest, I'm going down first, please tell me if you have anything to do." I nodded, feeling my mouth was dry, so I said, "Then please bring me a bowl of water later, thank you." Seeing her push the door out, I walked to the bed. At this time, beds had already appeared in Greece, but they were just a kind of very high four-legged bed.There are carvings on the four feet, the bed is covered with blankets, one end is slightly raised, and there are soft pillows on it. Just when I was about to climb up, the maid knocked on the door and put a bowl of water on the table After that, he left quietly.

I walked to the table and was about to drink it when I suddenly smelled a faint fragrance in the water.My hand froze for a moment, the water—poisonous! Holding the bowl, I feel a little complicated.What kind of enmity does this amiable noble couple have with me? Why do they want to plot against me? As the anger in my heart became stronger and stronger, I only felt that my whole body began to heat up, especially a certain part of my hand, which was getting hotter and hotter.When I lowered my head and noticed that it happened to be the place where Solomon's ring was worn, I saw a puff of white smoke rising up, and a young man dressed in Arabia appeared in a blink of an eye.

Chestnut hair, hazel eyes, rosy lips... "Little, little lamp..." I widened my eyes.He, why did he appear here? "Little rookie, we meet again." He looked at me with a smile and floated in front of me. "Have you recovered all the demon kings?" I asked in surprise. He hesitated for a moment: "The only thing missing is the Demon King Liuka, this guy doesn't even listen to my father." I glared at him: "Then what are you doing out here?" He blinked his big eyes: "I'll see how you are doing. Now that the rookie master is not here, the important task of protecting you will be handed over to me, the rookie devil." "I, Ye Wan, don't need anyone's protection." I gave him a disapproving look.I don't know where they are when I need their help, so I just let it go after the fact. He blinked again: "However, with that giant rookie by your side, you really don't need my protection anymore." "Giant rookie?" The muscles on my face twitched. Did he mean Si Yin? He nodded heavily: "It's very strong, very strong, stronger than my rookie dad..." The muscles in my face continued to twitch.Does this guy always use "rookie" to describe a powerful person?My mother is really harmful. According to him, is Ashley also considered a rookie vampire?Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a little funny... I quickly came back to my senses, picked up the bowl of water, and blinked at the little lamp: "The rookie devil, do you want to watch a good show later?" A curious look appeared on Xiao Deng's face, and he nodded. "Well, then you just stay on the sidelines obediently, and don't make a move no matter what happens later." As I spoke, I drank a few mouthfuls of water from the bowl and fell to the ground with a plop. Since they want me to drink this bowl of water, I'll just play tricks and see what tricks they want to play.It's a pity that they never imagined that I, Ye Wan, am invulnerable to all poisons. Not long after, I heard someone push the door open. "Mother, she really drank the medicine." It turned out to be that silly girl Ruina who spoke. "It's good now, my daughter, you don't have to go to that terrible place." There was a hint of relief in Lorna's voice. "Yeah, mother, I didn't expect that I would be able to escape the lottery by pretending to be a fool. But now it's all right, this woman has taken the medicine. When she wakes up, she will be a fool, and she will go to the lottery tomorrow instead of me. Anyway, she becomes You idiot don't know anything." "Hehe, thanks to God's blessing, I happened to bump into this stranger who looks a bit like you today. If a stranger goes missing, no one will pursue it." "Mother, I can rest assured now, otherwise I'm really scared." "My dear daughter, how could we be willing to ask you to die." A man's voice also intervened, "How noble your life is, those lowly people should feel honored to die for you." "Father, our luck is really good. Hehehe..." "You guys are really lucky..." I said with a smile. "Yes, yes..." Before the family could react, they responded a few times.When they suddenly realized that the person who said this was me, the girl who should be comatose, they turned pale with fright. "You, you, you..." Rui Na stared at me, unable to say a word. "Me, me, what?" I stood up with a smile, quickly subdued them before they called for help, and quickly tied them up with sheets. "Don't bark, if you don't listen to me—" I smiled and picked up the unfinished bowl of water and shook it in front of them, "I'll let whoever drinks first, and you don't want to become a family Fool?" The faces of the three changed drastically, and none of them dared to make a sound. Rui Na suddenly raised her head and looked at me resentfully: "I would rather become a fool than go to Crete to feed that monster!" Hearing the word "Crete", my heart was shocked, and I quickly asked, "What's going on? Tell me clearly." She snorted: "You stranger, of course you don't know what happened here. In order to seek peace with King Minos of Crete, the Athenians promised to send seven pairs of virgin boys and girls to Crete every nine years. This year It just so happened that it was time to deliver the sacrifices again, each sacrifice was drawn by lottery, this time it was my turn to draw lots, if I was drawn, I would be dead." My hands trembled slightly because of excitement, it really didn't take much effort, and I bumped into such a good opportunity! But—"Isn't it a virgin?" I looked at her suspiciously, no matter how I looked at it, she couldn't match a virgin. "Here, unmarried men and women under the age of 18 are considered virgins." Lorna, who was silent at the side, suddenly spoke. It turns out that this is the case. In my impression, boys and girls are seven or eight-year-old children, so when I was reading historical stories, I was always confused about how the prince mixed with boys and girls. "Even if I offended you this time, please let us go, we are also eager to love our daughters." Lorna said. I sneered: "Eager to love my daughter? It's a high-sounding reason. If it were someone else today, you would have made me a fool. You are too vicious." "Mother, if I knew it earlier, I would just use a slave instead." Reina complained. I frowned. I'm really a stubborn guy. I'm really sorry for not teaching them a lesson. I put my finger on my lips and blew lightly. Not long after, I saw a large flock of crows crashing in from the window, hovering over the few of them... Just when they were confused, I said something to the crows, and as soon as I finished speaking, the crows vibrated their wings as if they had received an order to charge, and piles of white things kept falling down, emitting bursts of stench.For a moment, the crow's feces were like rain, and fell on the heads, bodies, hands, and clothes of the family... "Help..." Ruina just shouted a word, after I shook the bowl of water with a smile, she immediately stopped obediently. Seeing that it was almost done, I signaled the crows to leave. At this moment, three huge smelly socks fell from the sky, wrapping the family tightly, only their heads were exposed. I turned around, only to see Xiaodeng blinking at me with a smile, and said softly: "It's so fun, my hands are itchy too." An earth-shattering stench hit with the wind, and I covered my nose suddenly.Wow, where did this guy find the socks, they are almost suffocating people to death, seeing that the family has already been smothered and rolled their eyes, uh - the power of these stinky socks... "You, make the socks disappear, or I will make you disappear!" I said angrily. He shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand, only to see three big socks suddenly split into many smaller socks, whirled in the air for a while, spelled out the big character "stinky", and then disappeared with a huff. The corners of my mouth trembled, I like and dislike funny magic... "You...what do you want?" Lorna was already dying from the smoke. "How is it?" I put down my hand covering my nose and smiled, "I want to draw lots instead of Reina tomorrow." The three of them stared at me blankly, then suddenly rolled their eyes, and all of them passed out. "By the way, what did you say to the crows just now, they are so obedient?" Xiaodeng asked curiously. I looked at him: "Whoever pulls the most will win this year's 'Golden Crow' award." Xiaodeng stared at me, and suddenly beat his chest and laughed loudly: "Haha, little rookie, you, you are so funny!" He laughed for a while, "By the way, when you find the rookie owner in the future, you can go to my place to play, We can come up with a lot of super fun magic together." I rolled my eyes at him: "Not interested." He seemed a little disappointed, but immediately laughed heartlessly: "It's okay, I can come and play with you. I'm going back, little rookie." My heart moved slightly, I looked at him and said, "Wait, why don't you do me a favor before you go back." The next day, with the help of Xiao Deng, I successfully got the lottery to go to Crete, and soon learned that the boat carrying the sacrifice would leave in three days. Everything seems to be going well.